Avast free is better than avg 8 free

dogfish12

Hello, Currently I'm running avg 8 free anti virus/spyware. I've read that the basic avast free is better. Opinions please. Many thanks.

aliEnRIK

AVG 8 is way out of date
But sure, Avast is definitely better

make sure you use the AVG REMOVAL TOOL first

DCFC79

The hordes of happy avg users will not be far behind,

arrallas

In this month's PCPro magazine, AVG 2011 came out the best of the free a/v protections. "It outclassed not just its free rivals but almost all of the paid-for packages in the malware test".
I use Kaspersky by the way, so no axe to grind!

aliEnRIK

AV Comparitives website which has the most comprehensive tests available show AVG lower than most
Definitely lower than both Avast and Avira (Which I use) in all of the latest main tests

Thats before we get to how much AVG tends to give users 'slowdown' problems and the like

BlueC

Personally I think Microsoft Security Essentials is now better than both AVAST and AVG.

aliEnRIK

MSE actually performs worse than AVG in the av comparitive tests

MSE also uses more resources than Avast and Avira

GunJack

in order...

1. avira

close 2. avast

35. the rest

Chris55_2

I've run avast for the last couple of years, but as it's never detected anything i don't know if it's any good! I think that the combination of Adblock+ and NoScript is actually what's keeping me safe.;)

aliEnRIK

Chris55 wrote: »

I've run avast for the last couple of years, but as it's never detected anything i don't know if it's any good! I think that the combination of Adblock+ and NoScript is actually what's keeping me safe.;)

Thats what makes me laugh - when people say their av has never detected anything nasty so their av has never let them down. How would they know if their av has failed them?

And yes, noscript will definitely be protecting you from browser based nasties which is the easiest way these days to catch nasties (other than dodgy downloading of course)

eslick

moved from AVG to Avira a few years ago, no problems at all with it, caught a couple of things over the years. Its last updates have made me think about changing, Vista doesnt recognise it for some reason, its now not on microsofts site and it stopped updating automatically but solved that with the scheduler.

Every time I think about changing though cant find anything that suggests MSE or Avast is any better though.